X-mas Task #2: Additional book research & bibliography

Book research: 


" Like other tyrannies, the tyranny of the majority was at first, and is still vulgarly, held in dread, chiefly as operating through the acts of the public authorities." - John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859. 


‘Madonna’s erotica album blurred gender confusions, fluidity of sexuality, and transgression of masculine and feminine stereotypes.’-Gauntlett, D. (2007). Media, gender and identity: an introduction (Reprinted. ed.). London [u.a.: Routledge.

Authentic Human Sexuality: An Integrated Christian Approach By Judith K. Balswick, Jack O. Balswick

"Even after the emergence of heterosexual desires, the battle is not over;homosexual thoughts can pop up at the most"

LGBT identity and online new media By Christopher Pullen, Margaret Cooper

'“Truting” uses the pop song Do You Really Want to Hurt Me? By Culture Club (headed by openly gay male pop star icon, Boy George), which offers an upbeat tempo, yet focuses on the misunderstanding of sexual diversity with the line “this boy loves without a reason,” and repeating the title line and “Do you really want to make my cry?” frequently.'

Encyclopedia of gay and lesbian popular culture By Luca Prono

"Gay and lesbian celebrated queers as producers of culture, thus countering media representations of gays as producers of the plague. "

"The debates surrounding popular culture representations of gayness became increasingly politicized."

Gender, Race, and Class in Media: A Critical Reader By Gail Dines, Jean McMahon Humez

"Despite some important advances in gay and lesbian visibility in media culture in recent years, representations of sexuality in mainstream pop culture continueto be, for the most part, rampantly heterosexual."

"Part of the reason for this is the continuing homophobia that producers assume continues to characterize the majority of media consumers in most targeted audiences. "

GAUNTLETT, DAVID Media, Gender and Identity

"Homosexuality distorts the natural bond of friendship that would naturally unite persons of the same sex ." 

"For example, whilst the official diagnostic manual of American psychiatrists ceased to define homosexuality as pathological in 1973, in 1980 it introduced a new illness called 'Gender identity disorder', which explains that girls or boys who are interested in non-stereotypical activites may have fallen prey to this psychological malady." 

Bibliography: 
 International Reviews Philippe Benichou Artist Blog. (n.d.). The Art of Philippe Benichou - Original Paintings - Limited Editions - Official Web Site. Retrieved January 2, 2012, from http://philippebenichou.com/blog/?page_id=150

Dines, G., & Humez, J. M. (2011).Gender, race, and class in media: a critical reader (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications.

Gauntlett, D. (2002). Media, gender, and identity: an introduction. London: Routledge.

Macdonald, M. (1995). Representing women: myths of femininity in the popular media. London: E. Arnold ;.

Mill, J. S., & Alexander, E. (1999). On liberty. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press.

Prono, L. (2008). Encyclopedia of gay and lesbian popular culture. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.

Pullen, C. (2010). LGBT identity & online new media (1. publ. ed.). New York [u.a.: Routledge.


Marx, K., Engels, F., & Arthur, C. J. (19721970). The German ideology. New York: International Publishers.


Guilbert, G. (2002). Madonna as postmodern myth: how one star's self-construction rewrites sex, gender, Hollywood, and the American dream. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co..


Nielsen, S., Smith, J. H., & Tosca, S. P. (2008). Understanding video games: the essential introduction. New York: Routledge.